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By admin, August 4, 2010 12:37 pm

Louise Nevelson, Maquette for Night Wall I

Leon Kroll, Maine Hills

The Redfield Gallery and Sunne Savage Gallery are pleased to announce the exhibition, Maine Modern and Realist. The exhibit is from August 4th to August 17th, 2010. The opening reception is Wednesday August 4th, 2010 from 5:00 to 7:30 PM at the Redfield Gallery, 125 Main Street, Northeast Harbor, Maine. The Gallery will also be participating in Northeast Harbor’s weekly Thursday Evening Stroll on August 5th.

The Maine Modern artists featured are Louise Nevelson, Byron Browne, Edward Betts, John Marin and Rockwell Kent. Works by Frank W. Benson, Walter Farndon, Leon Kroll, Jane Peterson, Charles Hovey Pepper, Charles Woodbury and contemporary artist Joel Babb represent the Realist Maine artists.

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By admin, May 24, 2010 6:56 pm

Elizabeth Da Costa Ahern, Azul, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 56 inches

 Lembranças de Angola, Memories of Angola, is an exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Da Costa Ahern and Nelson Da Costa. The juxtaposition of the two series highlights the artist’s differences: war and peace, figure and landscape. Their similarities, an Angolan experience, a Portuguese heritage, and formal education cultivated a creative outlet for Ahern and Da Costa resulting in this exhibition, Lembranças de Angola, which Caturano and Company Art Gallery is pleased to host.

Elizabeth Da Costa Ahern’s paintings are driven from her memories; memories of weather, color, landscape. In 2006 Ahern traveled to Angola as a participant in the American Artists Abroad Program. Her works recall the regions bright natural light, the colors of the textiles, and the Atlantic. Ahern enjoyed the people and cultural exchange while in Angola, yet constant security kept her aware of the lingering dangers of Angola’s 30 year civil war.

As child in Angola the 30 year war left Nelson Da Costa an orphan. Da Costa was introduced to art as therapy while healing from physical and emotion trauma. Achieving a degree in art therapy, Nelson earned his Masters in painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. The paintings of Da Costa’s address the memories of his lost family and armed rabbles. The details of their faces are lost overtime, what remains are silhouettes abstracted on a camouflage pattern of color. The pattern signifies a war torn Angola; the color represents Angolan culture.   

Lembranças de Angola is the first time Ahern and Da Costa are exhibiting together. The exhibit, curated by Christina Godfrey, is through June 18th at the Caturano and Company Art Gallery, 80 City Square, Charlestown, MA. To visit the exhibition or receive images via email please contact Christina Godfrey. Additional images and biographical information on Elizabeth Da Costa Ahern can be found at www.sunnesavage.com.

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By admin, April 8, 2010 4:09 pm

The Sunne Savage Gallery is exhibiting in Booth 20 at AD20/21, Art & Design of the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries. The art fair runs April 9^th-11^th, with the Gala Preview on Thursday April 8^th. AD20/21 is held in the Cyclorama Building, 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA. More information about the art fair can be found at www.ad2021.com.

The Sunne Savage Gallery is exhibiting two and three dimensional works of art by Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern, John Bisbee, Gillian Christy, Rockwell Kent, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Robert S. Neuman, John Raimondi, John Thompson, and William Thon.

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By admin, November 14, 2009 7:43 pm

Image: Gillian Christy, As winter sets, 2007, Steel and Bronze, 22T x 24 x 14 inches

Inside Outside is not only Gillian Christy’s first solo exhibition; it is also her first traveling show. After exhibiting Inside Outside in the Mayer Gallery, at Appalachian State University, NC, the exhibition is presently at the Campus Center Art Gallery, Fitchburg State College, MA, to introduce Gillian and her work to the Fitchburg community. Gillian Christy has been selected to complete a large scale public work for the town. The commission will welcome visitors and natives of Fitchburg via the Water Street Bridge.

Christy is currently in the project’s design phase. She is drawing inspiration from the town’s history, industry, architecture, as well as discussions and thoughts from residents. In keeping with her previous work, Christy will use these inspirational elements as “connectors” to link the sculpture and the people of Fitchburg. Christy is on schedule to complete the design in December, and start fabrication in the New Year.

To read more about Gillian Christy, her work, and the Fitchburg project go to http://www.telegram.com/article/20091028/NEWS/910280427/1003/NEWS03

A selection of Gillian Christy’s interior sculptures and commissions can be seen at www.sunnesavage.com. Please contact Christina Neuman Godfrey  for more information about Gillian Christy.

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By admin, August 28, 2009 5:24 pm

“William Thon: Painting and Works on Paper” will be on view at Redfield Gallery, 125 Main Street, Northeast Harbor, Maine, August 27th to September 19^th, 2009. Contact Sunne Savage with inquires at the Redfield Gallery (207) 276-3609.

Inspired by the waters, cliffs and boats on the Maine coast, William Thon worked with variegated textures to achieve his vision.  In “Shag Island”, 1961, (shown above) Thon uses his palette knife to create texture and plains on the surface of the rocks where the cormorants perch above the frigid waters.  Thon works his palette knife to express the sharp angle of the steep cliffs, and with the sweeping strokes, he creates turbulent waves giving a dramatic mood.  The emotional impact that Thon achieves with paint is forceful. His trademark watercolor and resist technique is used on works on paper where he interprets, boats, the fog and seagulls in flight. “The Irish Fishermen” a watercolor shown below is an example of this technique.

William Thon lived in Port Clyde with his wife, Helen. He was discovered by the owner of the Midtown Gallery, Allan Gurskin. Midtown Gallery continued to represent Thon for forty years. Helen and William Thon announced in 2001 that they would bequest their estate to the Portland Museum of Art. The funds are used to support the juried biennial art exhibit by Maine artists held at the Portland Museum of Art.

See the exhibition wriet up at http://mdi.villagesoup.com/AandE/story.cfm?storyID=174444

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Maine Inspiration: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings by Robert S. Neuman.

Ethel H. Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME.

August 16- September 25, 2009

Maine Inspiration addresses the 50 years in which Robert S. Neuman has enjoyed significant time in Maine and the effect that time has had on his work. The exhibition includes works from the Ship to Paradise, Stacks & Piles and Space Signs Series as well as the small group of Neuman’s Maine Landscapes. The exhibition is accompanied by an educational package equipped with explanations of each series, lessons on Neuman’s techniques, and hands on art projects for childern K-12.

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Rita Redfield of Redfield Gallery invites Sunne Savage to host a summer exhibit for a second year. The exhibition,  MAINE COASTAL VIEWS: 1880-1980, runs August 6 though August 24, 2009. Redfield Gallery is located at 125 Main Street, Northeast Harbor, Maine.

MAINE COASTAL VIEWS: 1880-1980  features paintings, watercolors and ink drawings inspired by the rugged coast , Monhegan Island and harbor towns.  In the image above titled “The Bowdoin, Monhegan Island,” Edward Willis Redfield captures the feel of a beautiful summer afternoon through his brushwork and colors that convey the sparkling light and breezy atmosphere of the day, The famed eighty-eight foot schooner, ‘The Bowdoin’, is moored just outside of the natural harbor formed by Monhegan and Manana Island.  Built in 1921, in East Boothbay, the Bowdoin was the official sailing vessel and a great symbol of strength for the citizenry, as she was constructed to withstand the perils of Artic exploration.

MAINE COASTAL VIEWS: 1880-1980 also features work by A.T. Bricher, William Partidge Burbee, Wilson Irvine, Charles Woodbury , Sally Michel , Tony Vevers and William Thon. For more information please contact Sunne Savage at the Redfield Gallery, 207 276 3609.

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By admin, July 23, 2009 7:22 pm

Nick Edmonds, Mountain near Santa Fe (image), painted wood, 20.5″H x 16″W x 10″D

Featured at the National Academy Museum, NY, 184^th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. Reviewed in the April 17^th issue of Antiques and the Arts Weekly, page 14.

Mountain near Santa Fe is from a recent series derived from selected views of mountains and woods. This particular mountain is on the Turquoise Trail between Albuquerque and Santa Fe New Mexico.  

The goal is to provide viewers with a sense of the wholeness of nature while living indoors. These room sized pieces are derived from selected views of mountains, bodies of water and the woods. I first envisioned making a sculpture that could be thought of as a small garden inside a house while studying wood joinery in Japan in the 1970’s. The profusion of gardens to be walked through and the many environments of stone and gravel meant to be viewed while stationary were overwhelming and I have sought to recall and utilize some of this energy as I understand it in these recent works.

In these sculptures a movement of rocks leads the viewer through the sculpture. Each rock used in the sculpture is carved in wood from an identical sized stone found on beaches or somewhere in New England. The duplication of these stones is a demanding exercise and entered into the spirit of study and renewal. After the stones are carved and primed it takes a while to achieve the three dimensional rock garden effects that I seek. But when properly arranged these faithfully copied stones bring a depth and hardness to the sculpture which is fairly unique.

184th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art is on view through June 10^th, 2009 at the National Academy Museum, NY. Inquiries about Nick Edmonds please contact the Sunne Savage Gallery.

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AD 20/21 Cyclorama Building, 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA.

March 26-29, 2009, Gala Opening on Thursday, March 26th, to benefit Boston Architectural College  

In keeping with the theme of AD 20/21, Art & Design of the 20th and 21st centuries, Sunne Savage of Sunne Savage Gallery has invited Sam Shaw of Shaw Contemporary Jewelry to display his jewelry in the Sunne Savage Gallery booth, Number 14.

The Sunne Savage Gallery will be exhibiting a selection of works by Robert S. Neuman. The arrangement will be a retrospective of Neuman’s various series including early works, Pedazos del Mundo, Lame Deer and Ship to Paradise Series. The grouping will also cover Neuman’s preferred mediums: prints, collage, mixed media on paper, and oil on canvas. Sam Shaw will be exhibiting his Twig Series, a collection of jewelry created from the outermost twigs of a birch tree cast in solid 18K gold. The result is an exact replica in gold. Each piece is then fabricated so that every finished piece is as unique as the branch Shaw initially gathered.

For more information about the Galleries and AD 20/21 please contact the Sunne Savage Gallery (781) 721-2410. Websites for the art fair, Sunne Savage Gallery and Shaw Contemporary Jewelry are www.ad2021.com, www.sunnesavage.com, and www.shawjewelry.com